The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-17
SHOT IN THE | LEG.
YESTERDAY MORNINGS SHOOTING
On Market Streut-Wiil Delaplnine Fires n
bullet Mt Lob Gates In Self Dofenss-Thc .
Farticu'ars;ot the Aflrny-W'to Gates
Fa is-- Tho Hearing Postponed.

Jnat after daylight yesterday morning,
about hali.past 0 o'clock, WIN Delaplalne,
a well known young man Of this city,
uhot Bob Gates, another young man, said
to hail from Pittsburgh, and who may be
generally claeucd as sharper" The
affair occurred on the pavement In front
Of Tom Howley's CattsRo oaloon, on Mar.
kot r.raet, next to the German Bank, and
was witnessed by about half dozen par.
tics. Fortunately for all parties concerned,
tho wound mndc by tho bullet from Della.
PLANES revolver was not q fatal ono; the
wors. 1t did wan TO cause, troublesome
flesh wound. y
The ehoo!ing was III itGUlf sensational,
and 10 tho news spread 1t became
more and more exaggerated, and the
details IS related ID nauy places were
sensational in the extrome. An effort
was made to hush the affair up as soon aa
1t had occurred, but happening 90 1t did,
on tho cltys main thoroughlarc, and at
the hour 1t did, It was impossl.
bio 10 prevent tho story from spread.
Ing like wiljilre. It WINS some time
before tho particulars could be gotten at.
Gates, 40 soon as he was shot was hur-
riedly taken TO an upper room in How.
ley'a place by bis friends and Ddlapiaitle
went over on tho South Side to tho room
Of his friend, VIII Monroe, where he slept
till half past thrce o'clock in the inter.
noon, when he was arrested thero by
Officer West. !N,'S'gt 5IT 75tH'
An hour after the shooting Howley dc.
MED to Lieutenant .Junkins that there
bad been anyone ahot about the place
and vowed that Gates was not In lis
house. Shortly after this Officer West
was sent TO search the house; he found
Gates and from that time tho story began
to slowly uursvel.
Delaplainc had been out all night aud
SO had Gates aud his friends. They met
In Howleys ,ptobably about four o'clock
and commenced to nhake dice for the
drinks. Gates ma,lo several remarks thaI
Delaplaine did not like, and there
we're disputes over the dics
Gates persisted In his sighting
remarks as II tempting Delaplaine to an
assault. Both were drinking freely. III
nally the men stopped shaking and ntep
ped outside. Delaplainc said as they
passed out " suppose you arc sstis.
fed now?" and at Gates request
repeated this. Such at least is Delaplaine's
stoTy. AS he repeated his remark Gates
struck him two blows in tho face and
knocked him down. As he fell he fred
his revolver, which be had in his over.
coat pocket, right through the coat. The
ball struck Gales in the left leg, near the
thigh, narrowly missing the big artery
and making a painful wound. Instantly
all was confusion, and had 1t not been ior
the cooler heads, there might have been
further shooting. As it was the princi.
pals were hurredly gotten out OF the way.
Dclsplaine when arrested, WAS taken
before Justice Davis and. held for u hear
ing on February 20, at 10 A. NJ, in the
sum OF 900; bonds were furnished by a
relative. The charge Is shooting with in
tent 10 MAIN, disfgure aud kill. Gsteu
was arrested on warrant charging assault
and battery, sworE out by Officer West
and Issued by Justice Davis. Gates was
taken to the North End Hospital last
night. e. ~ q
Gates 10 young man % years old, said
to be a Canadian by birth. Last septem.
Der during the State Fair, he was arrested
by Officer Carney for working the Shell
game" in secluded little corner down by
the race horao stables, where he was ron.
ing In the unsophisticated in great shape.
Pittsburgh is said to be his headquar.
ters and it is aaid in police
circles that he and three or four OF his
pals were recently run out Of that city
and still more recently out OF Washington,
Pa. From there. they camo here and are
here yet. Their reputation is anything
but good. The developments that will be
lr0Ilpht nrt ut tha han u. ,rill he a.ra:l